Growing up, I was always a fan of the Woody Woodpecker cartoon. I preferred Woody when he was cute and had the short beak, as opposed to long-beaked, smart-ass Woody. Husbandito prefers lunatic Woody, but I think he’s just being contrary.
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During the cartoons, Woody Woodpecker was never seen hammering away on metal rain gutters, causing a reverberating noise that could wake the dead. Instead, Woody was always getting mixed up in some crazy hijinx and just being a cutie-pie.
So could someone please tell me why the woodpecker in MY neighborhood is hell-bent on waking me up at 6 am every day with his incessant noise? Every spring, a deranged woodpecker takes up residence in one of my trees and commences pecking on my gutters in predawn hours. The infernal racket has caused me exhibit extremely unstable behavior and my neighbors must think me a lunatic (not that they’d be far off the mark.)
Hang out around my house at 5 or 6 in the morning and listen for the ear-splitting noise of the satanic woodpecker. After a few minutes, you will see a wild-eyed, frothing brunette with giant pink rollers dotting her head, a satin eye mask pushed up on her forehead, and cold cream slathered on her face, lean out of the window and shriek at the woodpecker. That’d be me. Hey, beauty doesn’t come easy friends, and since the woodpecker moved back into town, neither does beauty sleep.
I too like a cute woody.
hee hee.
Haha fantastic picture of you in the morning.
Hum i think that your woody might just be like a little baby. Just wanting to get up early and will not go back to sleep until he gets fed.
Maybe he is making a little home for his family.
I swear to you my wife and I were just talking about the two different Woody Woodpeckers just the other day. She didn’t know the evil fat legged Woody existed. I told her how I hated him and his fat legs. The good Woody is cute and funny and the evil Woody is ugly and retarded.
In Arizona my mom has a woodpecker problem too. Her wood pecker like to land on her swamp cooler (located on the roof) and drill away. My mom’s normally one with nature, but she’s ready to go to town with the woodpecker, b-b-gun style.
I feel your pain. Metal loving woodpeckers should be added to the extinct list.
I agree with you… I hate that evil crazy woodpecker. Yours is cute, your husbands, not so much.
Nearly all of the major animated cartoon characters from the “golden age” went through similar transformations, becoming more and more “neonatalized,” to play on the innate appeal (to humans) of things with big eyes, bulbous heads, teensy noses, and shorter limbs. Bugs Bunny did it, Mickey Mouse, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and the rest.
I think the trend reached its ne plus ultra (or nadir, depending on the durability of your stomach) in the Eighties, when they scrapped the pretense altogether and just made baby everythings: Muppet babies, Looney Tune juniors, et al.
My favorite bit of trivia on the subject of cartoon character evolution is Betty Boop. She was originally a dog! They morphed her floppy ears into the dangly hoop earrings.